ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS (NORTHERN TERRITORY) ACT 1976 - SECT 77A Consents of traditional Aboriginal owners

ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS (NORTHERN TERRITORY) ACT 1976 - SECT 77A

    Where, for the purposes of this Act, the traditional Aboriginal owners of an area of land are required to have consented, as a group, to a particular act or thing, the consent shall be taken to have been given if:

  (a)   in a case where there is a particular process of decision making that, under the Aboriginal tradition of those traditional Aboriginal owners or of the group to which they belong, must be complied with in relation to decisions of that kind--the decision was made in accordance with that process; or

  (b)   in a case where there is no such process of decision making--the decision was made in accordance with a process of decision making agreed to and adopted by those traditional Aboriginal owners in relation to the decision or in relation to decisions of that kind.